The Death of the Database

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The Death of the Database

• Mark Beyer, Donald Feinberg,
• Ted Friedman and Dan Sholler

2
Database-Dependent SQL Will Be Taken Away and
Context Will Be Real Time
1889 Hollerith'sStatistical Census method

• Defining persistence
• Think of verbs
• Storage
• Access
• Delivery
• Utilization/usage

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c. 1989 Internet Revolution
c. 300 b.c., "0" invented Babylon
c. 1750 c.e., Industrial Revolution
c. 350 c.e., "0" invented Mayan
c. 2700 b.c.,Minoan Linear A
c. 1700 b.c., Mycenaean Linear B
c. 2700 b.c.,Sumerian Literature
3
Persistence Becomes a Policy

• Persistence becomes an attribute of all parts of
  the system, not just concentrated in the database
• Policy based persistence is the norm, and
  mechanisms and architecture reflect the various
  policy scopes
• Classic "Database" fits only the historic scope
• Federation succeeds over limited domains
• Continues to be challenged by the "flood" of more
  data used more often

4
Market Impact Winners, Losers and Pervasive
Change
Line between BI and applications is further
blurred, new types of BI are possible, all BI
becomes real time
Simplification of composite application
deployment, domain-specific expertise becomes key
differentiator
BI
Applications
Significant growth as the focus shifts to
interoperability, the need to merge, cleanse and
transform data remains
Declines in relevance, size () and percent of
revenue for major vendors (IBM, Microsoft,
Oracle) smaller DBMS vendors exit the market
Integration
DBMS